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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Down the River.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What message does Max give the adoptive parents before they head out to start collecting official permissions?
(a) "Make yourself a joy to deal with."
(b) "Do not speak unless spoken to."
(c) "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."
(d) "Show no emotion."

2. What is the most common method used to commit suicide by Chinese rural women?
(a) Hanging.
(b) Stabbing.
(c) Poison by agricultural pesticide.
(d) Self-starvation.

3. According to a folk tale Karin read, what are adopted children in China sometimes called?
(a) Children of the mulberry bug.
(b) Mulberry wasps.
(c) Boll worm babies.
(d) Children of the wasps.

4. What is it called when the parents' dossiers are matched with a Chinese child?
(a) A contract.
(b) A referral.
(c) An intervention.
(d) An application.

5. What is the first major hurdle Karin and Mark have to clear in the adoption process?
(a) FBI fingerprinting.
(b) Passing a home study by a social worker.
(c) Clearance from the INS.
(d) A credit check.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, "Women and people of low birth are hard to deal with"?

2. Which of these is NOT an interpretation of Kelly's given Chinese name?

3. What is printed on the T-shirt Kelly wore from the orphanage?

4. What is a regional delicacy in Guangzhou that Karin is told tastes like peanuts?

5. After a baby is born, what do rural Chinese people bury outside the home if it is a girl, and inside if it is a boy?

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